total home a fresh approach
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Total Home A fresh approach. What’s available?. Community care grants / social work support Furnished lets – GHA & Other Friends and family donations Decorating grants – housing associations Homeless support services Starter Packs Ad hoc support –housing associations. What if….?. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Total Home
A fresh approach
What’s available?
• Community care grants / social work support
• Furnished lets – GHA & Other
• Friends and family donations
• Decorating grants – housing associations
• Homeless support services
• Starter Packs
• Ad hoc support –housing associations
What if….?
You have no belongings?
You are ill?
You don’t know Glasgow?
You can’t get a van ?
You don’t understand much English ?
You have no money?
You have no family / friends?
You don’t know where to start?
Why?
• Lack of furniture / condition of house - key reason for tenancy breakdown
• People being given a set of keys with nothing else
• Arrears at early stage of tenancy / unable to move in
• Increasingly vulnerable referrals to Fab Pad
Our approach
• What person wants and needs as
starting point
• Things to happen faster
• Help with all aspects of making a
home at the same time
• Practical help
• Flexible cash / in kind support
The idea…
“One stop shop”
Helping people source what
they need as quickly as possible
to make the home they want.
Hope House
Mobilised resource -staff & cash.
Consulted with Housing Assoc.
Worked with 7 new tenants
Learned along the way
What we did…
Hope House
Mobilised resource -staff & cash.
Consulted with Housing Assoc.
Worked with 7 new tenants
Learned along the way
Total Home Early Pilot
Referral
Visit / take to new home
Take stock
Shopping / sourcing
Engagement
What we learned…
• Intensive transition support from hostel to tenancy
• Help tenant feel valued, have
choices, be excited about new
home
• Longer engagement, not a quick fix
Faz’s story
Total Home Pilot Autumn 11
Further test model with 10 young people
Partner with Glasgow Furniture Initiative & 4
Housing Assocs – create furniture supply
Evaluate, homelessness, social & financial
impact
Scope social enterprise, scale up & funding
potential
Create furniture supply
Intensive transition support from
hostel to tenancy
Make tenant feel valued, have
choices, be excited about new
home
Longer engagement, not a quick
fix
Mobilised resource -staff & cash.
Consulted with Housing Assoc.
Worked with 7 new tenants
Learned along the way
Delivery Partners
Impact Arts
Glasgow Furniture Initiative
Glasgow Homelessness Network
Spruce Carpets
Support Partners
• Glasgow City Council
• Glasgow Housing Association
• Glasgow Social Enterprise Network
• Big Lottery – Investing In Big Ideas
Pilot cost - £35K including evaluation and
research
What do you think of Total Home?
What really needs to happen in Glasgow to enable us to
respond to the needs of vulnerable new tenants?